Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
This is the kind of thing I LOVE to see. Last month, Ohio became the first state to require new public schools to be built to LEED standards and are embarking on a major green renovation initiative as well – and they’re financing it with billions of dollars from a tobacco settlement!
For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s a recent study that makes a very strong case for Green Schools.
Billy Parish is Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Energy Action Coalition. Billy has taken four years off from Yale, where he was co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and was majoring in Ethics, Politics & Economics. Billy was a 2004 Brower Youth Award Winner, 2005 Rolling Stone magazine "Climate Hero," Mother Jones magazine's 2006 "Student Activist of the Year," and was recently named a "Fellow" by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. A co-author of the report "New Energy for Campuses," a guide for colleges and universities on how to cost-effectively cut their greenhouse gas emissions, Billy works to train students and equip them with the tools they need to implement local climate solutions. A native of New York City, Billy now works out of the Washington D.C. office of the Energy Action Coalition.
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Thanks for sharing this billy! This is Awesome!
this is great. i wish i could say i had something to do with it but i didn’t – but rest assured there’s plenty of other stuff in the works here in Ohio :0)